The first thing to consider when choosing home furniture furniture is the role of the home furniture in the household. Some families use their home furniture mostly for watching television, while others use it for reading, listening to music, and socialising with guests. A single home furniture may be used for all of those purposes at different times. Watching television, playing video games, reading, and visiting with friends may each have to be considered when planning the furniture arrangement. An alternative is to choose furniture that can be rearranged easily.

Knowing what the home furniture furniture set will be used for can help to clarify exactly what needs to be included. For example, is it better to have two sofas, or a single sofa and two armchairs? Keep preferences in mind, thus making the search easier.

A familys preference for sitting straight, sprawling, or laying on the furniture will affect the ideal size and softness of the sofas and chairs. If the home furniture doubles as a guest room, then sleeper sofas may be needed. Extremely soft, low to the ground sofas can be difficult to sit down onto and rise out of. If the home furniture is a place for guests as well as family, then perhaps the furniture should be neat looking and easy to use. This can especially be an issue for family members and guests who are elderly or disabled. For easy rearrangement, consider smaller upholstered chairs and two-seater sofas. On the other hand, some families absolutely love a large, sturdy, cushy sofa that everyone can cuddle up on. If meals are occasionally eaten in the home furniture, then careful consideration should be given to the placement of tables and the ease of cleaning the upholstery. If the home furniture is used for reading, then lighting will be an important consideration.

Of course, at some point the familys ideal home furniture arrangement needs to be reconciled with the space available. It is a very good idea to draw up the home furniture on graph paper before buying furniture. Assign a scale, perhaps one square per six inches or one square per fifteen centimetres. Begin by measuring the room and drawing the outline onto the graph paper. Then, cut out furniture outlines in the same scale from a second piece of graph paper. Create templates for the existing furniture first, and then make templates based on the size of the sofas, chairs, and footstools under consideration. Move the furniture templates around on the room outline to check for fit and arrangement. Dont forget to add non-upholstered furniture and accessories such as side tables, floor lamps, a coffee table, bookshelves, and an entertainment centre. Not only is this a useful method for choosing furniture that will fit, it can be used to work out the rooms plan before the new furniture arrives. Rearrangement of the actual furniture will not be necessary.

Although home furniture furniture is often chosen more for comfort than for style, it is certainly possible to combine a flair for decorating with practical considerations. Below are a few categories that home furniture furniture is often divided into.